This project is based on an ancient drawing exercise in which an artist attempts to illustrate 100 demons. Here, the idea has been merged into a blog and expanded to create a bestiary blog of 1000 things I find irksome, vexing, infuriating and wrong. It is more than just an exercise in drawing 1000 demons; it is a beautiful excuse to rant.Link
One of four futuristic sculpures in East Lancashire, England. Imagine being in the vicinity of this on a dark windy night. Via
We-make-money-not-art has an interview with Antony Hall. Among Antony's interests are making music by lathing wood, making people happy by connecting their brains to fish and searching for the illusive moss bears among many others. How do you end up with a life like that?
Lighting Mods has one of the most thorough guides to cleaning DSLRs I've seen. I've yet to clean my sensor despite having my camera almost 2 years now. Maybe if I shot more landscapes I'd notice the spots more but they rarely are ever noticeable.
If you do plan on trying be sure to have a very good guide such as this on hand as you can really trash your camera if you do it wrong.
This table was created from 150 bonsai trees that took 7 years to grow.
One of the more interesting aspects of this design is how it was received on the site where it was featured. Most of the comments condemned the artist for killing to make art. Umm...I wonder what the furniture in these peoples houses are made out of.
Maybe its that this table looks so much more alive? Link
It's not often you see this type of postprocessing of wildlife photos, and so well done. That along with perfect compositions and timing give alot of these photos a very illustrative feel.
Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.
Seems to have been created with a programming language called "Processing". I wonder how difficult it is to learn.
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.
AcidFanatic is running a special on their loops library. These are the type of loops used in such programs as Sony's Acid, Garageband and many others. 12 libraries normally selling for 9.99 each, for only $50. Thats almost 5000 loops. The libraries included are:
They are also offering a sample pack of this collection comprimising 62 loops for free. They sound pretty decent if your looking to make electronica type music.Ambient Sphere V1, Ambient Sphere V2, Big Ass Beats, Dream of Shadows, Electro-Chemical Grooves, Kaos Guitar V1, No Right Turn, Subconscious Programming, Techno Collection V1, Techno Collection V2, Twisted Beats and Urban Assault Beats.
Apparently, since 2004 Michael David Murphy has been posting the photos he didn't take. Michael describes his site like this:
Unphotographable is a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren't meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I'd taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.
Wow, hand-screened limited edition rock band posters from Hero Design Studio The one pictured here is :
16" x 20" Three color silkscreen printed on 100# cover, French Dur-O-Tone Paper in Steel Gray. Grey color is a super sparkly awesome silver. Signed and numbered edition of 100.
$30
There's many more beautiful designs as well.
